Locating the Voice in Film

Critical Approaches and Global Practices

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvTom Whittaker,Sarah Wright,University of Liverpool) Whittaker, Tom (Lecturer in Film and Hispanic Studies, Lecturer in Film and Hispanic Studies,University of London) Wright, Sarah (Reader in Hispanic Studies, Reader in Hispanic Studies, Royal Holloway

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Where is the place of the voice in film? Where others have focused on Hollywood film, this volume aims to extend the field to other cinemas from around the world, encompassing Latin America, Asia and Africa amongst others. Traditional theoretical accounts, based on classical narrative cinema, examine the importance of the voice in terms of a desired perfect match between visuals and sonic effects. But, as the chapters of this volume illustrate, what is normative in one film industry may not apply in another. The widespread practices of dubbing, postsynch sound and "playback singing" in some countries, for instance, provide an alternative means of understanding the location of the voice in the soundtrack. Through seventeen original chapters, this volume situates the voice in film across a range of diverse national, transnational and cultural contexts, presenting readings which challenge traditional readings of the voice in film in exciting new ways. By taking a comparative view, this volume posits that the voice may be best understood as a mobile object, one whose trajectory follows a broader network of global flows. The various chapters explore the cultural transformations the voice undergoes as it moves from one industry to another. In doing so, the volume addresses sound practices which have been long been neglected, such as dubbing and non-synch sound, as well the ways in which sound technologies have shaped nationally specific styles of vocal performance. In addressing the place of the voice in film, the book intends to nuance existing theoretical writing on the voice while applying these critical insights in a global context.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-01-26
Mått155 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190261139

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Tom Whittaker is Senior Lecturer in Film and Spanish Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of Landscapes (2011) and co-editor of Performance and Spanish Film (2016).; Sarah Wright is Reader in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of The Trickster-Function in the Theatre of García Lorca (2000), Tales of Seduction: The Figure of Don Juan in Spanish Culture (2007) and The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013).

Introduction: Tom Whittaker and Sarah Wright 1. Rey Chow, The Writing Voice in Cinema: A Preliminary Discussion, Rey Chow2. Jennifer Fleeger, Tito Schipa, Italian Film Sound, and Opera's Legacy on Screen3. Christine Ehrick, The Voice of Argentina: Gender, Humour and the National Soundscape in the Film Comedy of Niní Marshall4. Pavitra Sundar, Gender, Bawdiness, and Bodily Voices: Bombay Cinema's Audiovisual Contract and the 'Ethnic' Woman5. Colleen Montgomery, Double Doublage: Vocal Performance in the French Dubbed Versions of Pixar's Toy Story and Cars6. Rayna Denison ,Anime's Star Voices: Voice Actor (Seiyu) Performance and Stardom in Japan7. Tom Whittaker, Woody's Spanish "Double": Vocal Performance, Ventriloquism and the Sound of Dubbing8. Tessa Dwyer, Mad Max, Accented English and Same-Language Dubbing9. Catherine O'Rawe, Anna Magnani: Voice, Body, Accent10. Lisa Shaw. Carmen Miranda's Voice in Hollywood11. Nessa Johnston. "Feeling the Voice: Embodied Aural Encounters in Under the Bombs (Philippe Aractangi, 2007)12. Alexander Fisher. Vocal Spaces and Oral Traces: Voice, Orality, and Ousmane Sembene's Early Postcolonial Critique13. Negar Mottadeheh. Crude Extractions: The Voice in Iranian Cinema14. Sarah Wright, "Spectral Voices and Resonant Bodies in Fernando Guzzoni's Dogflesh (Carne de perro, 2012)15. Nikki J. Y. Lee and Julian Stringer, Snowpiercer: Sound Designable Voices and the South Korean Global Film16. Albertine Fox, Performing Through Space: overflow, displacement, and the voice in Keep Your Right Up: A Place on Earth (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987)17. Davina Quinlivan. A Dark and Shiny Place': the Disembodied Female Voice, Irigarayan Subjectivity and the 'Political Erotics' of Hearing Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)

Through a dynamic range of international perspectives, this rich and far-reaching anthology broadens the discourse on voices role in cinematic experience, capturing how particular voices perform within the image flows of contemporary global cultures. From the accented locatability of speech to the hyper-transmutability of vocal dubbing, voice is critically examined as a highly charged medium for national and geopolitical interests, lending critical weight to cultural agendas as well as poetic resistances.

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